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Excavation of the spiral ramp of the Beishan Underground Research Laboratory near Jiuquan City in China's Gansu province has ...

Earthquakes happen daily, sometimes with devastating consequences, yet predicting them remains out of reach. What scientists ...

If nonliving materials can produce rich, organized mixtures of organic molecules, then the traditional signs we use to ...

The computer, at its core, is an input-output device: it receives instructions, executes programmes, performs calculations automatically and produces results.By this fundamental definition, China's ...

The world's earliest computer was a silk loom built in China over two millennia ago, according to a claim made by China's ...

Life on the windswept plains of what is now central Ukraine offered little mercy around 18,000 years ago. Trees were scarce. Winters could bite for months. Yet people still returned to certain places ...

Side-blotched lizards probably don’t call the game that, but they play a version of it anyway. A new study explains the ...

The first excavation at the famed Tower of London in a generation uncovered more than 20 skeletal remains. Excavations revealed everything from a 14 th-century Black Death group burial to three ...